Community and school leaders are seeing a dramatic rise in vaping trends among teens, who are using hard-to-detect “juuling” devices to inhale flavored juices, nicotine and, in some cases, highly… Read More
The walkouts to protest gun violence that mobilized students across the country also created tensions in hallways and classrooms as a new generation was thrust into the debate over guns…. Read More
Changes implemented earlier this month by the state Department of Auditor General ensure all school district audits and reviews examine school safety measures and provide findings to law enforcement officials…. Read More
While charter-school enrollments — and costs — are growing in Philadelphia’s collar counties, their academic results constitute a “mixed bag,” with cyber-charter pupils in particular performing worse than those in… Read More
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has created a new statewide task force to examine ways to improve safety for the state’s schoolchildren. WHYY, March 15, 2018 Full story
Jonathan Bauer, principal at Upper Merion Area HS, testifies on school safety today at House Education Hearing on behalf of the PA Principals Association.
The US House of Representatives will vote Wednesday on a bill to fund more security at schools. On the Senate side, the Judiciary Committee will hold a widely anticipated hearing… Read More
Organizers say nearly 3,000 walkouts — including dozens across the midstate — are set in the biggest demonstration yet of the student activism that has emerged following the massacre of… Read More
Wednesday morning, at 10 o’clock, students at schools across the country will walk out of their classrooms. The plan is for them to leave school — or at least gather… Read More
The student walkouts being planned Wednesday in some area schools won’t be a traditional protest demonstration with bullhorns and marches. Some won’t even be outside, after school officials raised concerns… Read More